Thumbzilla

Our Overall Rating: A

Our Summary: Thumbzilla is a well known and popular TGP. Our popularity measures put it in the top 10 of the 75 tgps we studied.

Our crawler found a huge amount of new listings each day, leading to a total over the week of 1503Mb of pictures and 1766MB of movies. This puts thumbzilla in the top 5 in terms of quantity of content.

While thumbzilla has large updates, the numbers from the similarity study (see below) are fairly low, which means that it is listing unique content.

Our main disappointment was the lack of ICRA like labels to indicate the page is not safe for children. In addition, we did not like how galleries were forced to open in new windows, and we thought the descriptions could be a bit longer ... however these are only minor nit-picks.

We saw no evidence of blindlinks or skimming. Overall Thumbzilla is a nice and surfer friendly TGP.

We used the url: http://www.thumbzilla.com/main.html to download this tgp each day between the 10th Jan and 17th Jan 2005

Thumbzilla Summary

	B+	One of the more popular tgps, with a big overture search number 208,700 and #3,066 in Alexa
	B	Below a 1/2 page "Thumbzilla" is around 6 scroll pages of banners/counters/topslists
	F	none
	A	Thumbzilla.com uses short two word descriptions. It get an A because it does include the number of pics or movies.
	A	Nice direct hyperlinking style and no changes to the status area. However, www.thumbzilla.com does force new windows to open. Surfers are educated enough to know how to do this themselves, and with the advent of tabbed webbrowser could become annoying. For this reason we gave it an A instead of an A+
	A+	None
	A+	Thumbzilla has a large amount of new galleries each day. Thumbzilla's daily av of pics: 187.9MB and movies: 220.7 are both top 5.

Thumbzilla Updates

Summary results from our crawler

Thumbzilla Galleries

For the full list click here

Thumbzilla Request

===Out
GET /main.html HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: 
Host: www.thumbzilla.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

===In
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server:Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
Content-Type:text/html
Date:Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:11:27 GMT

Thumbzilla Similarity

The similarity numbers are below average, which means that most of the pictures and movies the crawler found on thumbzilla are unique and were not found on any other TGP (during the week that the study was performed). For example, the first table shows that only 4.7% of all pictures and movies found on thumbzilla were also found on picwarehouse.

Thumbzilla Feedback

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